Since slipping out on Leng last year, Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy’s first collaboration with singer/songwriter David Harks, ‘Susta’, has become a much-played modern Balearic classic, with DJs and listeners alike responding to the track’s attractive blend of sun-kissed nu-disco instrumentation, warming melodies and deliciously evocative lead vocals from Jaanika Leino AKA JaneLy.

Now the track returns for 2021 in the shape of two superb new remixes from Chicagoan deep house legend Ron Trent, who four years ago delivered similarly ear-catching revisions of Mudd and Pollard’s ‘Far Away’ as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations for Murphy’s Claremont 56 label.

As you’d expect given Trent’s impeccable track record over the last three decades, both revisions are stunning. He begins by eking every last ounce of soul from Leino’s brilliant vocal on a remix that’s warming, deep and luscious. Combining elements of Murphy and Harks’ colourful, synth-heavy original mix – including the lusciously tactile bassline and boogie-style synth flourishes – with his own yearning chords, hand percussion sounds and a shuffling, samba-tinged house beat, Trent re-imagines ‘Susta’ as a future vocal deep house classic. Melodious, musically intricate, infectious and summery, it’s a remix for the ages.

It comes accompanied by a Dub Mix that successfully shows off the intricacy of Trent’s production and additional instrumentation while keeping both eyes firmly on the dancefloor. Beginning with effects-laden synth sounds reminiscent of the mid-‘80s proto-house classics by Paul Simpson, Winston Jones and Boyd Jarvis, the mix sees Trent skilfully add selected snippets of Leino’s lead vocal to a backing track rich in delay-laden synthesizer sounds, reverb-rich chords, echoing percussion hits and chords so warming they feel like a late-night, loved-up bear hug for your ears. Like the A-side vocal version, Trent’s dub is breath-taking and spine-tingling in equal measure.

LENG SHOP

Harks & Mudd - Susta (Ron Trent Remix)

Makin' Moves into our 10th year of releasing nothing but quality soulful and deep house music and needless to say we plan to continue on past this musical milestone and journey.

Now presenting something truly amazing & special to celebrate our tenth vinyl release, we our glad to welcome Ron Trent & Ursula Rucker.

Ursula Rucker : For many years..at least fifteen!! Ron Trent & I have been talking about working & creating together. And NOW..THE TIME HAS TRULY ARRIVED!! It's that..BLACK QUEEN energy! That BLACK QUEEN synergy! That BLACK QUEEN wizardry! THEE VERY first Ron Trent & Ursula Rucker collaboration HAS ARRIVED!! BLACK QUEEN...HAS...ARRIVED.

Credits :

Vocals performed by Ursula Rucker

Music produced, performed & arranged by Ron Trent

Executive Producers : Jamesey & Matt LS

Ursula Rucker & Ron Trent - Black Queen (Main Mix) **VINYL EDITION**Makin' Moves Records

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Freaks follow up their release, Right Now featuring Robert Owens " with another exciting single on Rebirth. This time Luke Solomon and Justin Harris team up with Diz aka 012 to reinterpret the Womack & Womack classic ! In the words of Freaks, "We first started recording this record around 6 years ago. Originally to a live drum track. The track started off as a straight cover, then eventually was stripped down and remixed effectively. Diz used to stay with us quite a bit in London and around the time that we first recorded the vocals we had been listening to a lot of Funkadelic, The Style Council and this. Diz started singing it in the car and we just decided to record it for fun. It just seemed to work so well, probably because Diz really understood the soul of the track and captured it in the delivery of his vocals. We then added some backing vox and stripped that back and ended up with this version...The album, 'Conscience', that we took it from, is one of our all time faves " The one and only Henrik Schwarz also serves up a strong remix and dub with his trademark warm sound, piano, synth and acid bassline ! Magic and epic at the same time... From Germany Johnny D reworks the song with his special groove and vibe ! Already tried and tested by Gilles Peterson in the last month....... this is a another monster tune from the Freaks stable.

Freaks & 012 - Conscious Of My Conscience (Henrik Schwarz Remix)

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DOMINIQUE FILS-AIMÉ is a singer-songwriter hailing from Montreal, Canada. Her musical inspiration draws from soul icons of the 40’s and 60’s the likes of Billie Holiday, Etta James and Nina Simone. 

DOMINIQUE’S sophomore album STAY TUNED! was released in February 2019 and brings to center stage the resiliency of mankind in the face of adversity and oppression and pays homage to Afro-American history and culture. 

After hearing DOMINIQUE’S incredible gift and talent, we approached her and her team about putting together a remix package to help showcase her to the FOLIAGE audience.

We’re delighted to have on board 2 musical dons in ATJAZZ and FRED EVERYTHING to skilfully rework SUN RISE and FREE DOM taken from DOMINIQUE’S STAY TUNED! album.

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